Ace309

Listen, I'll level with you. I planned my night poorly, and my SBA meeting ended at a bar. When I got home, I went, "Oh, shit," because I had several beers and a glass of scotch on an empty stomach, and then I came home and chatted with my best friend over another scotch and a vodka and creme de cassis. Yes, I drank a bitch drink. I'm almost as ashamed of that as I am of delaying the show. Luckily, I don't have to work tomorrow, so please feel free to PM me vile invective, as I deserve every bit of it. I remain your humble and besotted servant, TMF

Happy birthday in absentia to Erek Taylor.

They didn't respond to my "IMPORTANT: About Stats" declaration.

I was thinking waving a DVD at him to catch his attention and then having a tag team partner hit the rollup. Handful of tights, natch.

Jumpin' Jack Flash was a nooblet who was booked twice but apparently misunderstood how the matches are written. His stats are up at TheSWF.com.

Deep-Fried Lockdown* turned a 3.0, tying for #5 on the top 5 shows list. *Deep-Fried because it took place in hot Greece.

If that's not intentional, it should be.

I have no occasion to use this advice. However, my parents are computer-illiterate and so they ask me regularly to "fix" this. They occasionally get stupid video clips in their (Hotmail) mailboxes that they would like to forward. They seem to find that simply clicking "forward" doesn't reattach the video clip. They aren't going to have an easy time of downloading it to the hard drive and then attaching it, so I'd like to avoid giving them that advice. Is there an easy way to make sure a hotmail forward keeps its attachment?

Wow, those are really poorly edited.

The director or the judge? - Taa "wants a cookie" mo

There are a lot of matches that go that way. I made a career out of being 500-1000 words under the limit and being several K shorter on PPVs. So did Grand Slam, as I recall. and Wildchild and ELM deserve medals for their commentifications.

You know, Zyon, I like your writing, and I like your psychology. I'm not saying that changing this would have won you the match, but sometimes your sentences seem to railroad a little, which you could mitigate by stopping to read them out loud every few paragraphs or so. For example... might read a little more naturally if it's rewritten. I'm not saying the rewrite is grammatically perfect by any means, but it reads a little more easily. As a marker, when I'm reading, I want the reading to be fun, and for it to be fun, it most likely has to be easy. (The exception is when you have someone like old-school Thoth, who tries to be a little more poetic, but that's another story entirely.) Polishing up the writing a little can only help you. Hope this is useful for you.

I should point out, for the record, that there's nothing wrong with short matches. I made a career of being 500-1000 words under the limit and being 2-3000 words shorter than my opponent on PPVs. I should also reiterate that, since I didn't do the booking, I didn't mark the match and Ejiro won his first World Title from me, I really have no reason to BS you. I've got no dog in this fight.

While I didn't book the card and thus can't speak to all the factors at work here, we are running an angle in which Ejiro is being pushed down the card due to his being unmarketable and boring. We also hadn't seen you write. For all we knew, you could have been capable of pumping out a five-star classic, but you weren't writing 'real' matches where you were at. I assume that after MVS/'Chuck Woolery' considered those factors, he figured that A) This would be a pretty good way of furthering the angle, and B) This would be a pretty good way to get a sense of what you're actually capable of doing. You're going to lose matches sometimes, and you're going to get bookings you hate sometimes. We try not to let the second one happen, but it's impossible to please all of the people all of the time, and unfortunately, except in the case of co-writes and no-shows, someone's match is going to lose. As far as I can reconstruct the booking, this match accomplished its goals. Ejiro got a match in which he was pushed down the card, and we got a match out of you by which we can adequately judge where you're supposed to be.

You find me nerdy and objectionable.

Having read both matches, the distinction I made is that Ejiro's match, while short, was relatively linear as well as reasonably well-written and relatively serious until the post-match activity, aside from Suicide King's commentary (which was appropriately irreverant). Your King is fairly weak and lacks character, which is likely just due to your newness to the fed. Your psychology seems all over the place, though - while you did, in fact, follow stories fairly well, your order of spots seems like it was more or less a crapshoot, and if there was a story underlying it other than the strict limbwork, there wasn't much in the match to help guide the reader. I remember feeling cheated about my first big loss, and I'm sure you feel the same way, but I don't see any reason to believe there were NEFARIOUS MEANS~! at work here. I hope these comments help to explain the situation. If you have any more questions, please feel free to talk to me.

B to tha izzump.

::turns up nose::

Is Megan half-Asian?

"Here are the matches. You make the stips." "First blood. LSD on a pole. Bukkake. Loser's girlfriend dies. Loser gets his neck broken."

Yes.

Oh, duh. Yes, they did. I just blanked on it. === I apologize for not getting back to you sooner. In the past month we have made some changes at X-NET, internally. The person who was doing the ratings resigned from his position and we had to find someone else. As always, the ratings are done for fun, and in no way should be taken as gospel. They are only one man's opinion. Having said that, the new person is rather harsh when judging, as instructed by me. The low marks have come in the Originality category which in turn brings down the Entertainment numbers. Hopefully, I have answered your questions. I am sure that with your PPV this past week, your rating will improve. Thanks, Brad X-NET Owner

Tour dates updated through Ground Zero

I belive my first match was posted March 9, 2002. It was against fellow rookie Danny Williams. I won, although Danno protested that I had used good writing to make a lesser match appear better. In retrospect, it wasn't exactly stone-faced, as far as psychology goes. In-character, it's hard to say... possibly finally winning a ladder match by defeating Ann Onita and winning Allison, but most likely beating out ELM in the Ultimate Submissions match at ... Ground Zero, was it?, in 2002, that kickstarted my career as one of the top guys. That match felt like the transition between working with Annie and Ash over and over again for the US Title and the period when I started moving up the card. Out of character, involving myself, there's got to be the first-person match I wrote against Thoth-as-Orochi. I was inordinately proud of that. One of the big ones, though, has to be watching Pretz win a match main-eventing a PPV, and watching Wildchild finally get a solo PPV ME win. I've enjoyed watching the fed develop from a non-participant's standpoint, and I'm looking forward to guys like Pretz and Zyon, who weren't around when I retired, stepping up and building the new base of the fed.

I tested on Supes last night and just doublechecked with Janus. Posters whose posting ability is disabled can still read the forums; they're just unable to post and will receive an error message when they try to do so. EDIT: It's also possible to moderate posts, requiring mod approval for a particular poster. This will come in handy for people who want to post promos.